What Happens When You Legalize the Sex Trade

We’ve said it time and time again, that legalizing the sex trade only makes sex trafficking easier.

As much as this makes sense, you’ll find plenty of people arguing from the other side.

They claim that legalizing prostitution is about better conditions for prostitutes and benefits societies general health regarding disease control. They claim that it keeps the women safe, as women must be treated like employees with all the benefits.

But it’s all lies.

Treating prostitution like a victimless crime is a bad road to go down. It only leads to death and destructions.

Just ask the Dutch.

They’ve legalized prostitution, drug use and euthanasia. Surprise, surprise, we find their culture booming with sex, drugs and death. It was all about “regulation” and “safety,” but those were just ideas and excuses to wonder into a cultural train wreck. Now what are they suppose to do?

“Twelve years on, and we can now see the results of this experiment. Rather than afford better protection for the women, it has simply increased the market. Rather than confine the brothels to a discrete (and avoidable) part of the city, the sex industry has spilt out all over Amsterdam — including on-street. Rather than be given rights in the ‘workplace’, the prostitutes have found the pimps are as brutal as ever. The government-funded union set up to protect them has been shunned by the vast majority of prostitutes, who remain too scared to complain.

Pimps, under legalisation, have been reclassified as managers and businessmen. Abuse suffered by the women is now called an ‘occupational hazard’, like a stone dropped on a builder’s toe. Sex tourism has grown faster in Amsterdam than the regular type of tourism: as the city became the brothel of Europe, women have been imported by traffickers from Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia to meet the demand. In other words, the pimps remained but became legit — violence was still prevalent but part of the job, and trafficking increased. Support for the women to leave prostitution became almost nonexistent. The innate murkiness of the job has not been washed away by legal benediction.”

Comments

Just out of mere interest in this topic. If you could speculate any possible alternatives that could be used in the legal sex trade to maybe help regulate these problems better. I guess what I’m trying to say is; if one were to legalize prostitution in any given state or country. What would you impose or set in legal stature to help regulate these issues so this doesn’t occur.

hmm.. you’re very misinformed on the matter. And the “facts” you give aren’t facts at all but quotes that you don’t even provide the with the source. You may feel it personally undesirable but actually research has shown legalization and regulation is the best deterrent to trafficking, stds, etc that underground prostitution produces.

The source is cited at the end of the post, and you can go back and forth playing around with statistics, but when you actually talk with law enforcement who are actively working ‘on the ground’, they’ll tell you that it ISN’T working. It amazes me how desperate some people are to preserve legalized prostitution — but then again — they are highly invested…